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New Pan-Canadian Working Table Launched to Strengthen Canada’s Workforce Resilience
The Future Skills Centre (FSC) has launched the Resilient Workforce Working Table, a pan-Canadian initiative bringing together skills development experts, employer and labour representatives, and policy leaders to develop actionable, evidence-based recommendations that will help Canada’s workforce adapt to growing economic and labour market disruption.
In the Media
Sustainable Workforce Coalition Aims to Address Skills Gap in Clean Economy
Content from: TechTalent.ca
July 22, 2025 by Knowlton Thomas
Across an array of networks and programs, Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Innovation Centre regularly engages with business owners, managers, and practitioners by the count of thousands
In the Media
How technology such as AI will affect Canada’s workforce
Content from: BNN Bloomberg
July 18, 2025 by Amanda Lang
The job market in Canada is facing some transformational change, including the arrival of artificial intelligence. So is AI here to take your job? Amanda Lang looks at some of the research. Amanda then discusses the skills gaps in Canada’s workforce, and how that will change with new technology, with Lisa Lalande, CEO of the Century Initiative. Jobs will change fast in the months and years ahead – can we change with them? Amanda talks it over with Noel Baldwin, Executive Director of the Future Skills Centre.
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New Pan-Canadian Working Table Launched to Strengthen Canada’s Workforce Resilience
The Future Skills Centre (FSC) has launched the Resilient Workforce Working Table, a pan-Canadian initiative bringing together skills development experts, employer and labour representatives, and policy leaders to develop actionable, evidence-based recommendations that will help Canada’s workforce adapt to growing economic and labour market disruption.
In the Media
Sustainable Workforce Coalition Aims to Address Skills Gap in Clean Economy
Content from: TechTalent.ca
July 22, 2025 by Knowlton Thomas
Across an array of networks and programs, Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Innovation Centre regularly engages with business owners, managers, and practitioners by the count of thousands
In the Media
How technology such as AI will affect Canada’s workforce
Content from: BNN Bloomberg
July 18, 2025 by Amanda Lang
The job market in Canada is facing some transformational change, including the arrival of artificial intelligence. So is AI here to take your job? Amanda Lang looks at some of the research. Amanda then discusses the skills gaps in Canada’s workforce, and how that will change with new technology, with Lisa Lalande, CEO of the Century Initiative. Jobs will change fast in the months and years ahead – can we change with them? Amanda talks it over with Noel Baldwin, Executive Director of the Future Skills Centre.
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Meeting the Demand: A Collaborative Response to Canada’s Skilled Trades Shortage
Last month, the Future Skills Centre (FSC) joined Canada’s Building Trades Unions (CBTU) and SkillPlan to co-host a site visit at IBEW Local 353 in Mississauga. We were honoured to welcome the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families and FedNor, along with senior leaders from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
In the Media
Research project looks to advance inclusive hiring for Canadians with criminal records
Content from: hcamag.com
July 9, 2025 by Jim Wilson
Four organisations are teaming up for a national research initiative that aims to ensure fair and inclusive hiring practices for jobseekers with criminal records.
In the Media
IBEW Canada Supports National Collaboration on Skilled Trades Training
Content from: ElectricalIndustry.ca
July 4, 2025
On June 24, IBEW Canada proudly joined national partners and government leaders at IBEW Local 353’s training centre in Mississauga, ON, for a media event hosted by the Future Skills Centre (FSC), Skillplan, and Canada’s Building Trades Unions (CBTU).
In the Media
FSC’s Tricia Williams Interviewed on The Current with Matt Galloway
Content from: CBC Radio
July 2, 2025 by Matt Galloway
Tune in to enjoy an engaging interview with Tricia Williams, FSC’s Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization on The Current show with Matt Galloway
In the Media
Whither Canada’s future workforce in the tech-driven global knowledge economy?
Content from: Research Money
June 25, 2025 by Mark Lowey
Canadian businesses are under-investing in training their employees while industry and academia are still operating in silos when it comes to training the future workforce.
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Future Skills Centre invests $7.6M in 35 projects
Content from: Canadian Manufacturing
June 16, 2025 by Canadian Manufacturing Staff
The new projects include both early-stage innovations and ready-to-launch programs.
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More Canadians to benefit from skills development through expansion of promising solutions by Future Skills Centre
FSC is pleased to announce a new investment of $14.3 million to expand more than a dozen innovative approaches to skills development addressing the urgent need to ensure Canada’s workforce is resilient and prepared for the future.
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Future Skills Centre tackles ongoing skills shortage by investing in programs helping thousands land in-demand jobs for today and tomorrow
Toronto, May 12, 2022 —The Future Skills Centre (FSC) takes on the growing skilled labour shortage and widening skills-to-jobs mismatch by announcing today a $19M…
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FSC establishes $20 million partnership with CPMT to support workforce development in Quebec
Toronto, February 18, 2022 – Skills development in Quebec received a large injection of support to help Quebecers face a changing labour market and prepare…
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Sustainable Workforce Coalition Aims to Address Skills Gap in Clean Economy
Content from: TechTalent.ca
July 22, 2025 by Knowlton Thomas
Across an array of networks and programs, Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Innovation Centre regularly engages with business owners, managers, and practitioners by the count of thousands
In the Media
How technology such as AI will affect Canada’s workforce
Content from: BNN Bloomberg
July 18, 2025 by Amanda Lang
The job market in Canada is facing some transformational change, including the arrival of artificial intelligence. So is AI here to take your job? Amanda Lang looks at some of the research. Amanda then discusses the skills gaps in Canada’s workforce, and how that will change with new technology, with Lisa Lalande, CEO of the Century Initiative. Jobs will change fast in the months and years ahead – can we change with them? Amanda talks it over with Noel Baldwin, Executive Director of the Future Skills Centre.
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Resilient Workforce Working Table
The Resilient Workforce Working Table is co-chaired by three Special Advisors to the Future Skills Centre, along with Noel Baldwin and Dr. Tricia Williams (FSC Director of Research, Evaluation and Knowledge Mobilization), who bring deep expertise from across Canada’s employment ecosystem.